Pick a winner in each dimension — change your vote anytime.
Pricing and capabilities synced from the OpenRouter catalogue. Scores are editorial (0–10).
Choose Claude Fable 5 if you want the hardest autonomous coding and reasoning work, where the quality ceiling pays for itself. Choose Codestral if you want fast completions and lightweight code edits.
In our editorial scoring, Claude Fable 5 leads in 3 of five dimensions (output quality, agentic ability and reliability), while Codestral leads in 2. On price, Claude Fable 5 runs about $22 per 1M tokens (blended) and is proprietary; Codestral is about $0.48 and proprietary.
The model picks the moves; the agent runs the loop, the tools, and the guardrails. Once you've chosen a model, see which agent gets the most out of it.